Jay B Levan

Born: November 19, 1942

Began His New Journey on Monday, October 27, 2025

Jay Levan, son of Zit Levan and Pearl (Kupchick) Levan, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family and caring aides on Monday, October 27th after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. Jay, originally from Brooklyn, New York, moved to Florida with his family in 1955. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Entomology and was a member of the Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. Upon graduation he and his father, Zit, started Vanguard Pest Control that Jay owned and operated until it was sold in 2000. Before his Parkinson’s progressed Jay traveled the world always looking for his next adventure. Some of his treks took him to Mt. Kilimanjaro, Base Camp at Mt. Everest, Pike’s Peak and Machu Picchu in Peru to name of few. A quote by Erica Jong is so fitting for Jay, “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” When he wasn’t traveling, he was playing golf, cycling with the Everglades and Broward bicycle clubs and skiing the slopes of Colorado, and Utah and Heli-skiing the mountains in British Colombia. He was president of The Miami Snow Ski Club where he enjoyed taking club members to ski resorts around the country and Canada and Europe. Jay was a season ticket holder for the Miami Marlin’s, Miami Dolphins and Florida Panthers and of course, The Miami Heat from their first season. But the highlight every year was attending the Indy 500 Race with his wife Lori in Indianapolis. Jay will be deeply missed by his beloved wife, Lori, brother Alan Levan and wife Jennifer, brother-in-law’s William Webb and wife Gwen, and Wayne Webb and wife Mary, and sister-in-law Glenda Young and her husband Mike along with his many wonderful nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews, friends, and Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity brothers and his much-loved feline fur babies.

For the last number of years Jay participated in the Parkinson’s Rock Steady Boxing group at the Michael Ann Russell JCC in North Miami. He faithfully attended classes there twice a week and made many wonderful friends. The instructors are all volunteers and rely on donations to continue the amazing work they do to inspire and motivate all of the Parkinson’s students they work with. In loving memory of Jay please make your donations to:

The Michael Ann Russell JCC

18900 NE 25th Avenue

North Miami Beach, FL 33180

Memo on check must say: Rock Steady Boxing